2020 US Code
Title 6 - Domestic Security
Chapter 1 - Homeland Security Organization
Subchapter IV - Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security
Part F - General Immigration Provisions
Sec. 291 - Abolishment of INS
| 6 U.S.C. § 291 (2020) |
| §291. Abolishment of INS |
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(a) In general
Upon completion of all transfers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as provided for by this chapter, the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice is abolished. (b) ProhibitionThe authority provided by section 542 of this title may be used to reorganize functions or organizational units within the Bureau of Border Security or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but may not be used to recombine the two bureaus into a single agency or otherwise to combine, join, or consolidate functions or organizational units of the two bureaus with each other. |
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(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, §471, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2205.) |
| EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables. STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES CHANGE OF NAME Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (b), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. Mar. 1, 2003, H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY |
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| Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY CHAPTER 1 - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION SUBCHAPTER IV - BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY Part F - General Immigration Provisions Sec. 291 - Abolishment of INS |
| section 291 |
| 2020 |
| January 13, 2021 |
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| standard |
| 116 Stat. 2205, 2135 |
| Public Law 107-296 |
